Yarn



Dec. 17, 1940. AKBEL ETAL 2,225,290

7 YARN Filed'l-eb. 10, 1959 INVENTORS.

HERMAN AIBEL U- MAX mAss.

Paul ATM ATTORNEY.

Patented Dec; 17, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 5 Claims.

Our invention relates to the construction of yarn and particularly toyarn in which horse hair or artificial horse hair is used as a componentpart and has among its purposes and objects:

A crinkly and relatively stiff yarn.

A yarn with a body.

A yarn having a two tone effect which is shiny and chalky.

A stiff yarn which may be stitched.

We accomplish these and other objects by the construction hereindescribed and shown in the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof inwhich:

Fig. 1 is a view of a three thread yarn having a single horse hairthread.

Fig. 2 is a modification of a three thread yarn having a plurality ofhorse hairs forming one thread.

Fig. 3 is a modification showing several plies of the yarn shown in Fig.1.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views of the drawing and in the specification to follow.

We are aware that horse hair has been used for stiffening and has alsobeen used with other threads in making yarn but such yarn is madewithout twisting the horse hair which is used straight and bound orcovered with the other threads.

In our yarn threads of cotton, rayon, or other material are firsttwisted in one direction and then are twisted in the opposite directionwith the horse hair to thus form the yarn. While this is our preferredconstruction it may be modified in numerous ways some of which arehereinafter described.

The term horse hair as used in this description of our yarn is thegeneral term applied commercially and includes not only horse hair butalso artificial horse hair and similar stifi material which has theprincipal characteristics of horse hair or hair of considerable lengthfrom the tails and mains of horses and from other animals having similarlong stiff hair.

Referring to the drawing and particularly to Figure 1 the horse hair Iis shown as a single thread or end of about 360 deniers twisted about 6turns per inch and combined with two ends 2 and 3 of dull rayon about450 deniers each singly twisted about eleven and one half turns perinch.

The twisting of the horse hair gives the yarn an uneven or crinklyappearance and also causes the horse hair to be seen and to appear shinybetween the more conspicuous ends of dull rayon which because of theirgreater flexibility are noticed in the assembled yarn to have a morepronounced twist 4 and to lie relatively closer to the surface 5 of theyarn than the horse hair which due to its stiffness tends to lie closerto the center 6 of the yarn.

A plurality of ends or predominance of horse hair twisted to form athread as shown in Figure 2 of the drawing tends to make the horse hairmore conspicuous on the surface of yarn and thus causes the yarn toappear more shiny. The relative number of horse hairs may be varied tochange the appearance of our yarn as desired and the character and sizeof the material of the other threads used with the horse hair may alsobe varied to produce numerous modifications of our yarn.

In Figure 3 we have shown several plies of the yarn above described andshown in Figure 1 of the drawing and the several plies may be fur- Hther modified by using the construction shown in Figure 2 or othercombinations may be used in the plies to give the desired size andappearance. The number of twists per inch of the horse hair and of theother threads of the yarn also give varying effects of stiffness andmake the yarn more or less crinkly or shiny.

We do not wish to be limited to the details herein described as it willappear to those skilled in the art to which our invention pertains thatnumerous modifications may be made without departing from the principlesunderlying our invention. We may wish to depart from the details ofconstruction herein disclosed to illustrate our invention within thescope of the appended and assembled with said threads of fibrousmaterial to form said yarn, said twisted horse hair causing said yarn tohave a crinkly appearance and changing in appearance as the relativeproportions of said fibrous material and said horsehair are changed.

3. In a yarn, a plurality of ends or threads of fibrous material andtwisted horse hair twisted and assembled with said threads of fibrousmaterial to form said yarn, said twisted horse hair causing said yarn tohave a crinkly appearance with threads of fibrous material whereby acrinkly efiect is produced by the twisting of said horse hair, saidthreads of fibrous material having a dull surface and said horse hairhaving a shiny appearance whereby a varied efiect is 5 produced.

HERMAN AIBEL MAX MASS.

